Recipe 10.11. Creating a Boot Disk on Debian
10.11.1 Problem
You forgot to create a boot diskette
when you installed your Linux system, and now you want to make one.
You know how to create a GRUB or LILO boot diskette, and you know
that you can download and burn a nice Knoppix disk for free. But all
you really want is a nice little generic boot diskette for your
Debian system.
10.11.2 Solution
Use the mkboot utility and a new, blank diskette. The
default is to create a bootdisk using vmlinuz
and the current root partition:
$ mkboot
You may specify a kernel:
$ mkboot vmlinuz-2.4.21
Or a different root partition and kernel:
$ mkboot /dev/hda2 vmlinuz-2.4.21
If your floppy drive has a non-standard location, use the
-d flag to tell mkboot
where it is:
$ mkboot -d /dev/fd1
10.11.3 Discussion
mkboot is part of the
debianutils
package.
Remember to write-protect your diskette by moving the little slide
up, so that the slide is open. Always test boot disks before putting
them away, and be sure to keep it with the system it was created on.
10.11.4 See Also
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